The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

That's right kiddies, it's March once again and that means only one thing, no I'm not talking about drunken hookups and drunken island excursions, I'm talking about the Big Dance. The 2005 NCAA tournament field of 65 was released earlier this evening and office pools across the country are about to heat up. Why has the NCAA Men's Basketball tournamtent become one of the biggest gambling events of the year for even the non-gambler? Because the excitement and ease of picking winners transcends age and sex. Women love picking winners and do so through a great variety of methods. In no other contest can someone win by picking winners based on which mascot is "nicer" or which team's colors are "prettier." For the next three weeks going to the office won't be nearly as bad either. We all have the opportunity to walk around pretending we are basketball experts until proven wrong by the destruction of our bracket. Names like Andrew Bogut and Squeaky Johnson are going to become household names while we all do our best Jay Bilas and Dick Vitale impressions. (By the way Bogut plays for Utah and Sqeaky for UAB, check out his hair.)

For guys this may be the toughest 3 weeks to avoid missing any key moments as our girlfriends and wives will never understand watching every single minute of every single game. Your best bet, get them involved in a bracket competition. Once she gets a few of the 1v16 gimme games right and, God forbid, picks Bucknell to win after you laughed at her pick because you had Kansas going to the Elite Eight, she'll start to get into it a little bit too. Either way this is the best time of the year, so get those newspapers ready and started looking at the matchups and pick those brackets. No pick is a bad pick, although some are just plain stupid.

NFL Week 5 in Review

We learned a lot about the quality of teams in the NFL this past weekend. First and foremost, all the Seattle and Atlanta fans can go back to dreaming about being elite NFL teams. The Seahawks managed to blow a 17 point 4th quarter lead to the Rams, one of the worst road teams in the league. And the Falcons, well I know Vick is playing but where the hell has he been? One big play this year and so far a 3 point win over the Cardinals and a 7 point loss to miserable Detroit at home. These teams will still make the playoffs obviously, but don't expect them to go all the way.
Other division leaders now include the Broncos and Steelers, both mediocre teams in bad divisions. Look out for Jamal "My Roommate's Dealer" Lewis and the Ravens, and Landanian "I am the SD Chargers" Tomlinson. The Colts, Pats, Eagles, and Vikes will cruise to division titles, while the Falcons continue to stave off Carolina, which shouldn't be a problem. The Pats are still the best team in the NFL since no one can beat them and that the G-Men are pretty good. The Jets while they are undefeated are in for a big surprise when they play a real team. So what does it all mean? It means Eagles v. Pats in the Super Bowl in the first ever matchup of undefeated teams.
At the bottom of the barrell the poor Dolphins, I never thought I would say it, but it's too bad that Fiedler and Feeley are both hurt. Both are questionable for next week against Buffalo, meaning, you guessed it another loss. I still think SF is the worst team in the league, but shame on the Cardinals for blowing that game.
On a parting note, tonight's game of fallen big boys, Ahman Green will rush for 170 yards and 2 touchdowns as Mike Sherman uses Brett Favre's body as a puppet on the field to hand the ball off and the Pack avoids going 0-3 at home and wins 24-14.